{
  "question": "Was today a famous cavalry charge?",
  "url": "https://was.today/a-famous-cavalry-charge",
  "verdict": "no",
  "headline": "NO",
  "answer": "No — October 26 is a paperwork day: the Patriot Act (2001) and Windows 8 (2012), no thundering hooves.",
  "details": [
    "Balaclava's Charge of the Light Brigade was October 25, 1854",
    "In 1813 Lasalle's hussars fought at Zehdenick on Oct 27",
    "2015 Hindu Kush quake shook the ground, not the cavalry"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Wikipedia: October 26",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_26"
    },
    {
      "title": "HathiTrust",
      "url": "https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ssd?id=mdp.39015004255603;page=ssd;view=plaintext;seq=322;num=296"
    },
    {
      "title": "Wikisource",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_invasion_of_the_Crimea_Vol._5.djvu/410"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive",
      "url": "https://panewsarchive.k8s.libraries.psu.edu/lccn/sn85054514/1847-10-26/ed-1/seq-2/#1"
    }
  ],
  "date": "2026-10-26",
  "place": null,
  "permalink": "https://was.today/a-famous-cavalry-charge/2026-10-26",
  "scope": "global",
  "volatile": false,
  "generatedAt": "2026-10-26T08:35:20.891Z"
}